MICRO.
Intimate / Twilight Weddings.
Hold a special place in my heart.
It is a huge privilege to be invited to capture Weddings with a specially selected, smaller guest list. Your attitude, approach and behaviour as a photographer is highlighted as the only stranger in the space. It takes skill to blend to ensure everyone’s experience is unaffected by your presence.
I am often asked to not share images on social media from these more intimate days and always honour your wishes and would never charge for this.
I approach each Wedding as an once in a lifetime event. Shooting for legacy over trends. The collection of images you receive at the end of this process will be the moments and the people who matter to you and the sparks of joy, with a selection of stylish portraits for you to frame, that took minutes to capture.
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INTIMATE WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY IN NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
Planning a intimate Wedding or Micro Wedding in Nottingham? I have experience shooting at The Cozy Club, The Nottingham Council House – Nottingham’s central Registry Office, The Lace Market Hotel, West Bridgford Registration office. Bridgford Hall. Arnot Hill House. The Pumping House. Somewhere Beer lounge in Beeston, The Carriage Hall and Perkins Restaurant. Pippley Walled Garden and Woodborough Hall Twilight Wedding packages are a favourite and I am a recommended supplier at both venues. Nottinghamshire’s unique heritage and central location often means people travel to marry here. Best known for the legendary folklore of Robin Hood and the ancient woodland of Sherwood Forest and the Major Oak. Nottingham Castle and The Old Trip to Jerusalem (allegedly the oldest pub in England) area of Nottingham is a beautiful location for Wedding portraits. Nottingham also has a rich sporting history Trent Bridge cricket ground, Notts County the worlds oldest professional football club and Nottingham Forest FC. Wollaton Hall also a Wedding venue is a stunning Elizabethan stately home that served as Wayne manor in Christopher Nolan’s Batman film The Dark Knight Rises, host of Splendour Festival, outdoor cinema screenings and a herd of deer. I often meet couples and families in the grounds for engagement of or family photo shoots.
Nottingham’s famous brands of Boot’s inventor of ibuprofen. HP Sauce, Raleigh cycle factory and the famous chopper. Paul Smith, Experian, The original Bradley apple tree planted in Southwell.
The Lace Market – the historic heart of the world’s lace-manufacturing industry during the British Empire. Now a thriving food scene of pubs, bars, hotels and award winning restaurants. The City of Caves – A vast underground network of hundreds of man-made sandstone caves carved beneath the streets. University and student city, Nottingham Trent and Nottingham University. With many couples marrying after meeting here.
Other places to celebrate in Nottingham or Nottinghamshire include Restaurant Sat Bains with rooms two Michelin starred fine dining restaurant. The Malt Cross, The lace market area. Holme Pierrepont Hall, The Carriage Hall, Hazel Gap Barn. Many couples organise an intimate Wedding at one of the above venue’s with a small number of friends and family, followed by private dining at a special restaurant, a private family dinner afterwards celebrating with a larger party for their wider group of friends later in day or on a separate day. Once of my favourite recent intimate Weddings, my couple married at Bridgford Hall in December, just before Christmas surrounded by close family, 20 guests and went on for a meal at Yumacha in West Bridgford. Then spent Christmas and New Year travelling around Australia and New Zealand. Returning to a big party in February at The Magic Garden on Low Pavement. Another lovely couple held a micro Wedding in West Bridgford, followed by a family dinner at World Service (now sadly closed) and went on to party at home in their garden, inviting many more friends and family into the evening. We snuck out for sunset portraits at Wollaton Hall, my coverage of both was completely personalised to suit their plans and preferences. Both Weddings I LOVED to photograph.
The skill required to photograph Micro Weddings and more intimate Wedding where emotions are heightened and family dynamics may be problematic, blending with the atmosphere and reading body language and silent cues. Emotional intelligence, empathy and understanding. Ability to read people. The shorter time frame means an experienced photographer will be able to work quickly to pre-empt and capture unrepeatable moments. The ability to allow people to feel at ease, while still photographing the day. The technical aspects of photography. Using fixed focal length prime lenses and two camera bodies simultaneously gives a depth to my images and the ability to constantly work creatively as light, moments and frame aligns. The consistent movement of a Wedding day lends itself to my street photography, documentary coverage. That is not timeless but shows your era, in a nostalgic series of images. I know I love to look back on hairstyles, clothing styles, decor, product packaging, how small children looked, who was interacting with each other and how. The roles people played within your day and their own stories.